Everything You Needed To Know About the Internet In May, 1994

harrymcc writes "On Saturday, I picked up a copy of a book called How To Use the Internet at a flea market. It was published in May, 1994, and is a fascinating snapshot of the state of the Net at that time — when you had to explain to people that it wasn't a good idea to say 'thank you' when issuing commands to a machine, and the World Wide Web was an alternative to Gopher that warranted only four pages of coverage towards the end of the book. I selected some choice excerpts and wrote about them over at TIME.com."

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Netscape tonight

[hazeii]

Oddly enough I was surfing the net using Netscape on a 486 tonight.

Interesting that a lot of sites now give the message "Cannot communicate because Netscape and the site cannot agree on an encryption algorithm".

Thanks NSA, you've finally broken 20 years of backward compatiibility.

Re:Also LaQuey's book, 1993

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp. Yes, Republican took Gore's self-serving quote out of context and ran with it. But, to this day Gore's still a douche.